Business Continuity Recovery Services Vault¶

Azure Agent based backups for files and folders on Windows machine either on-prem or Azure VMs
Recovery points: Latest (lowest RPO), latest processed (lowest RTO), latest app-consistent

Azure Backup Server¶

similar to System Server Data Protection Manager, except works only with Azure (no tape or disk backups)
Applications connect to to Backup Server to back up which in turns gets backed up to Azure
App aware snapshots VSS, e.g. SQL server, sharepoint in addition to file based
use Protection Groups to group servers/clients and their data to be backed up
- can backup to disk (short-term) and/or online
free download, installation pre-req
- must be installed by itself on an on-prem or VM
- must be a domain-joined server
- needs a locally installed SQL server (includes a copy of SQL server)
- needs a scratch-pad free space that is at least as big as 5% of the total cloud backup

provides a disaster recovery site in cloud for on-prem/azure data centers
functions: replicate VMs, run watchdog, failover using Recovery Plan
VMs: VMWare, Hyper-V, Windows/Linux machines, Azure stack VMs
Recovery Plan: orchestrated replication i.e. specify how and in what order machines failover
- may include manual action; recovery will pause to confirm manual action was completed
- testing recovery plan creates actual resources which need to be cleaned up